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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nullzone" data-source="post: 5570442" data-attributes="member: 97538">I've started tooling with a Swordmage for LFR play, and thought I might share it here for feedback; for character concept, I consider her an arcane scholar who is highly attuned to and exploitative of Thunder/Lightning magics, being a Stormsoul Genasi...but having spent time in the City of Brass, she's more martially inclined than most, thus Swordmage. As such, I tried to steer toward those powers unless the alternatives were markedly better.I wanted the character to keep making the monsters go "wtf!?" by interrupting a lot and reducing damage or redirecting attacks entirely (preferably to their own allies). Tactical strategy is to Aegis the melee baddies and let the strikers play with them while I go after the artillery/controller/lurker and make his life miserable with booming blade and white lotus effects, using my interrupts to keep the strikers alive if the melee guy chooses not to come after me. I feel this provides a lot of synergy for strikers like Pursuit Avengers or other classes who like to move around to get bonuses, and it really plays up the Swordmage's mobility as well (which is another thing I love about it).So here's the build:I know I'm missing equipment, not really worried about it; I intend to take a Farbond Spellblade (just because I think it's cool) and Armor of Aegis Expansion (marked baddies still can't hurt my allies too bad even if they manage to catch us in burst or blast) for sure, hadn't looked into other equipment yet.So I'm open to suggestions for it; I'm completely lost on a L20 feat (considered taking Skill Power and picking up something like Strategist's Epiphany just because it's so good for what it is), and don't really know what other equipment will go well with the build...Also, I hate hate hate missing. I mean, who doesn't, but seriously. So ways to avoid that are good too if you see any obvious ones that don't require corner-casing with my attacks.Feedback appreciated, feel free to yoink for your own toons of course <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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